The Lord did, in his Sermon on the Mount, on the habit of speaking ill of others which is a great evil and temptation. The Lord strictly forbids judging
Judge not, that ye be not judged. For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again. And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and behold, a beam is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye" (Matthew 7:1-5).
Thanks very much for correcting my poor memory of the Bible. I very much appreciate it. And if you'll scroll down just a few more you'll have yet another opportunity to correct me.
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I'll catch some flack for saying this I'm sure. But I would have been thrilled to have two parents of whatever sex who weren't either drunk or beating the crap out of one of us when I was a kid.
Somebody on this thread said no kid 'wants' to be fatherless. Well the day my old man walked out all I felt was a tremendous sense of relief.
I knew once he was gone I wasn't going to have to hide or duck when he was around. Getting knocked into walls gets pretty old when you're a kid. Seeing your mother get dragged around by the hair also leaves quite an impression on youngsters.
He's been born again and has asked for our forgiveness. I'm obligated to do it and let bygones be bygones. He's a pretty decent guy now that he's gotten himself straightened out.
But back in the bad old days all I wanted was for him to be gone and I wouldn't have cared if my mom had let a left handed red headed 7 foot tall lesbian amazon warrior with three eyes move in with her as long as the beatings stopped.
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